Trans Woman Forced To Compete Against Men Swims Topless In Protest
Trans Woman Forced To Compete Against Men Swims Topless In Protest
Anne Isabella Coombes swam in a men’s bathing suit to protest Swim England’s policy changes.
What a fucking legend.
“They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men, which ‘outs’ me as a woman who is transgender,” Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. “I explained to the person on the phone that they are not allowed to do that, and he didn’t have an answer.”
so she's a woman enough to be required to wear a women's swimsuit, but not woman enough to be allowed to swim in the women's competitions?
Discrimination isn't logical. They can't logic their way into it.
And she's woman enough that the Reading Chronicle blurred out her nipples/boobs in their picture!
I sort of like the recent (running, I think) competition where the trans girl was allowed to compete, and she and the cis girl who came in after her got the same medals and place on the podium as if it was a tie. Second place, I believe. That seems much more fair than this.
Edit: it was California track athlete AB Hernandez. Several nice stories about how mutually supportive the girls were. But now I'm seeing a story about Oregon cis girls stepping down from a podium because they refused to be there with a different trans girl. Because I guess hating on her was more important to them than celebrating their own win. Sigh.
Yes, because exclusion is the point.
Many of the bigots would prefer elimination rather than exclusion which is why you can't "find common ground" them
Bigots tend to catch a severe case of cognitive dissonance.
They don't though. This isn't a gotcha that will make the bigots second guess themselves, there will be no internal discomfort or recognition of internal contradictions, because exclusion is the point. The more stupid barriers there are, the less trans people participate.
There is power in protests like these, but the power lies in the way it forces the people who aren't deep down the transphobia rabbit hole to challenge their previously unchallenged opinions.
Honestly, for most of them, I'm surprised they even have cognitives to begin with
It's a real Schrödinger's lady situation.
On the one hand fuck the bigots, on the other hand - I’d watch it. Why not allow all people to wear tops or not if they want to?
Nice
Brave lady